Double Purple Starfish
Aslin Beer Company in Alexandria, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Rotating|
Score
6.91
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For this DIPA we took our Starfish recipe and made it twice as nice. Typically, Citra & Galaxy hold down the hops to give big juicy flavors of plump candied orange. In this new twist, we’ve substituted a portion of Mosaic hops to give it a more dimensional tropical fruit flavor with additional blueberry notes!
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7/10
Canned. Poured cloudy yellow of course it did & tropical fruits orange juice etc. pretty good
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 02:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Very hazy, almost chunky pale golden, straw yellow and peach coloured body with a pretty small, just over one centimetre tall frothy off-white head that barely covers the 90 per cent opaque body. Aroma of oranges, curacao, light mangoes, a good deal of wheat and some pretty noticeable candy sweetness towards the end that makes this very fruit and sugar forward - in the nose at least. Medium-bodied; Pretty rich mango and especially orange candy notes show at first with a lot of residual sugars here, but a dash of dryness and citrusey aspects as well, however, the wheat and light yeast notes provide more than enough balance and keep this mild, especially at the end. Aftertaste is crisp, very drinkable and showing a pleasant sweetness along with a lot of fruits and smooth balance from the malt bill - and almost no alcohol notes or bitterness throughout. Overall, a new school, very easy-drinking beer that definitely does NOT show Imperial Status at all - perhaps a 'good' thing, but nice to sample, especially those who want a clean, easy-drinking, but still moderately ABVed IPA that tastes more like juice than anything bitter! Nice to have locally and super fresh! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from MOM's Organic Market in Fairfax (Merrifield), Virginia on 16-December-2022 for US$4,99 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 18-January-2023.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2024
at 07:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured a hazy orange color with a medium-sized white head. Aroma was tropical fruit, citrus, mango, pineapple. Flavor was grapefruit, light grassy notes, some fruity orange and light vanilla.
Tried
on 11 Nov 2023
at 05:49
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can, courtesy of mansquito. Pours hazy orange. Grapefruit, lemon, grassy, strong grain, little doughy, almost like a white chocolate note. Medium body. Fine.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jan 2023
at 00:57
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jan 2023
at 20:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: hazy with white head. Pineapple and grass. Unrefined. Flavors come out dirty. Disappointing
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2022
at 23:47
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at the brewery, light haze. Pineapple and some vanilla, some booze. Flavor follows. Medium bodied, oily finish. 7 2 7 3 12
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Dec 2022
at 16:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Grapefruit and pineapple. Tangerine. Murky orange pour with decent head. Light hop tang finish. Faint green onion. Tap at 14th St. Location.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Dec 2022
at 20:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On draft at the Herndon location. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Aromas are pineapple and grapefruit. Flavors are bitter citrus.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Nov 2021
at 18:19